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Much of the magic that circulated through medieval and Renaissance Europe is treated here as a debasement of older enlightenment practices, reinterpreted by people who lacked the initiation to understand them. Using the kabbalistic soul structure of Neshama, Ruach, and Nefesh, the Holy Guardian Angel is reframed not as a separate being to be invoked, but as the deeper, animal-soul ground that the everyday self, the Ruach, was never actually separate from in the first place.
Borrowing the image of a spring boiling up from underground water, the self and any spirit or psychological complex it conjures are cast as temporary ripples on the same deeper current. The real discipline, then, is not summoning the angel but recognizing its ongoing communication: the arising and passing of thoughts, sensations, and symbols, read with the same attentiveness learned for literary imagery, is itself the knowledge and conversation already underway.
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Okay, we are back, and today we are presenting a video on the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
I’ve had a number of requests for this, so let me go through this spiel relatively quickly.
I want to demonstrate a way of looking at the Holy Guardian Angel so that anyone can quickly recognize it.
okay i’m not saying it’s going to be easy but i’m going to simplify it so that you can understand
what it means to have the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel
all right um so let’s proceed okay first of all i’d like to point out that a lot of the literature
that you get in magic that proliferated throughout europe uh consists of debasements of a what seems
to be a much older tradition that was legitimate that it actually was a a set of enlightenment
practices that probably precipitated out of i don’t know egypt or india who knows where they
started okay um they might have started in multiple places and uh there’s a tendency throughout
history for any kind of enlightenment practices to be debased and turned into
systems of magic so that you can win your lucky lottery numbers or something like that right
it’s it’s inevitable that what happens with secret enlightenment practices is that they
get leaked out into the general public the general public doesn’t understand them because they don’t
don’t have the initiation and then they see all kinds of fantastic things uh and they so they
doctor it up and they present it out there in some kind of published form that they know will sell
uh whereas if if you really were to present uh a discipline of enlightenment practices to most
people they would not be interested because just simply the things that it’s promising
are not interesting to the ego okay so debasement is something that we’re up against when we come
up with any kind of mentions of magic and this is particularly in regard to phenomena like angels
and deities and demons okay like what these things actually are in practice as you can probably tell
from this channel so far uh it’s somewhat different from the way they are portrayed by
Hollywood or by children’s fairy tales, things like that. This doesn’t invalidate the way
Hollywood or children’s fairy tales presents these things, but we have to remember that
the original enlightenment practices, when they are leaked to the general public who don’t
understand them, get reinterpreted, retranslated into something that doesn’t represent
anymore what they originally were designed to do okay i know this because we have we still have
access to some authentic traditions like kashmir shivism and tibetan tantric buddhism that seem
to have maintained their legitimacy there those systems also have been debased and corrupted over
time by you know lots of people mainly due to salesmanship you want to put it in a book and
make it pretty and make it usable. But as you do that, your own misunderstanding of it can kind of
ruin it, unfortunately. And that especially happened in medieval Europe and Renaissance
Europe with all of the grimoires, with all of the magical books that were, but not all of them,
many of them that were circulating throughout Europe. And so the interesting thing, though,
if you are aware of the enlightenment practices of tantric buddhism or kashmir shivism you can
then recognize them echoed in the traditions of europe that had become debased okay and the nice
thing for people like you and me is that we have the adepts of the golden dawn who basically
rescued this european or western tradition of enlightenment practices and restored it back to
some kind of uh workable system not everybody in the golden dawn understood it and it there
was still some debasement going on uh when it came to you know them practicing the system that they
had in front of them they really didn’t know what they had you know only a few of them did maybe
westcott knew uh israel rigardi seems to have an understanding of what the golden dawn was doing
uh dion fortune had some kind of understanding of it okay many people nowadays do not hence this
channel so um there’s this idea in the golden dawn if you’ve read it deeply enough and long enough
this idea of joining the ruach to the nefesh these are essentially two parts of the soul these are
jewish words or hebrew words kabbalistic words for parts of the soul the ruach and the nefesh
all right and the way that these appear uh it’s important for you as a somebody practicing magic
you learn how to join your ruach to your nefesh okay even as i say that it’s misleading okay
because you can’t really join the ruach to the nefesh and i’ll tell you why in just a second
okay here as you can see we have the 10 sphere oath of the tree of life including daath which
is the uh near the top there okay makes a total of 11. and uh as you know from the previous videos
the student of magic will build this tree of life into his or her aura and the tree of life
represents many things here it represents the three three parts four parts three parts
of the soul okay the topmost part is called the neshama okay and the neshama includes the yechida
the chia and daath there okay there’s reason for that if you know kabbalah you probably know why
okay but the whole construct up there is called the neshama um and the second the second
level of the soul below that is then the ruach which is trans which is translated as
spirit or breath or intellect or persona okay and then we have uh the nephesh which is the
animal’s soul okay and then nephesh is the animal soul is very important to this video okay and uh
the goof down below that which is in maku that’s just mainly that’s the physical body the physical
shell okay which means that the animal soul is somewhat more than just the physical body it’s
the energetic body of your animal body okay now supposedly humans have a level of soul above that
called the ruach one of the secrets of this uh is that the it doesn’t necessarily proceed straight
down okay uh one way of looking at this is that the neshama up above rains down its blessings
upon the nefesh and the nefesh then grows a ruach upward okay so it’s not that the
neshama creates the ruach and the ruach creates the nefesh not necessarily what’s happening okay
it’s more like the neshama creates the nefesh and then the nefesh grows a ruach okay
now yes behind the scenes there may be a level the ruach that is potential so in other words
the neshama creates the ruach which creates the nefesh but then the nefesh creates a a version
of the ruach that’s sort of a copycat which exists in your day-to-day consciousness okay
well i know this is we don’t need to go in depth of that that can get quite confusing
but the important thing here is to note that the ruach can be perceived as growing upward from the
nefesh so your persona as a civilized human beings evolves out of your animal nature out of your
animal soul and this we can understand according to the theory of evolution okay so uh and the so
the human persona has evolved out of the animal persona that interesting thing is that uh what
we learned to do in magic is to join the the ruach to the nefesh okay very strange um since they are
already connected why would i need to connect them if they’re already connected right the problem is
we don’t see the connection we have become divided against ourselves we have a sense of ourselves
living up in our head separate from the body somehow which is kind of silly really because
that’s impossible uh to so the ability to see through or past that duality is the same thing
as joining the ruach to the nefesh this is very important too because to join the ruach to the
nefesh opens up a new kind of appreciation for what you see within the animal soul and within
the soul of the world and within nature all around you okay i think we can i’ll clarify this some
more okay here we see the magician who’s probably done some conjuration work and he’s sat that he
has now sat down to uh to meditate and to maybe have a conversation with something that he has
conjured up okay and the way we can see this is like well um he has to join his ruach who’s nefesh
well this is a way of doing it he basically is using his intellect to reach deep down inside
himself and call forth something from the animal soul something that’s been bothering him okay this
is essentially you calling forth some kind of troublesome image out of cell memory okay
something that is that troubles you gives you makes you afraid of heights or something like
that who knows it might be a phobia an anxiety an irrational an irrational impulse that you have
that you want to work with there are ways of doing that okay uh and so that in order to do that you
would reach down into your nefesh and call forth some kind of manifestation of this thing okay so
that it can speak to you and you can speak to it that what that means is um that both the demon
here that’s being summoned and the magician are outgrowths of the nefesh and the nefesh is down
below okay so the ultimate ground of being beneath these two creatures here is the nefesh the animal
soul and so the magician is then calling something forth so that he can make meaning out of it make
peace with it make friends with it or possibly dissolve it the ability to work with the higher
self depends upon a very basic fundamental principle of philosophy and that is the idea
that specific ideas are suspended from general ideas, okay? Or that specific ideas are bodied
forth by general ideas, okay? So general ideas give birth to specific ideas, and specific ideas
can be absorbed back into general ideas, okay? I’m hoping that makes sense because it’s extremely
important for your ability to apprehend your higher self. In this diagram, you have something
very general at the top which would be like your main idea say we’ll say that you’re writing a
paragraph okay so the main idea is the more general idea which governs all the others
it overshadows them all let’s say sort of like your higher self over overshadows you and then
there are three major details supporting the main idea okay and of course the main idea could be
seen as bodying forth these supporting details you can see it that way okay and then the major
details uh then body forth some minor details okay so we have this specific to the general
down to the specific okay what we can do is we can reverse this uh oh now the subordinates are
in charge and the boss is on the bottom this is evil right well uh so another way of looking at
reality is that well all we can really see what’s on the is what’s on the surface the particulars we
can see the specific stuff happening on the surface but we really can’t see the general
stuff that’s bodying all of them forth okay so uh you might want to liken this to looking down
into a spring let’s say let’s say you are a a drone robot with a camera and you’re hovering
over a spring looking straight down upon it you can see that there is a a um apparently there’s
some kind of current down underneath the water which you can’t see which is causing turbulence
on the surface which you can see so the turbulence on the surface are the details of the spring
and the stuff down below are the um the major powers that are responsible for generating the
little tiny specific powers on the surface okay let’s do some more with this okay so you’ll notice
here this diagram here is the same as this diagram here this diagram has one main idea
two major details and six minor details this diagram has one main idea three major details
and six minor details the same okay one of them is called a vertical hierarchy and then this one
is called a nested hierarchy all right so if you are looking down straight from above at a spring
boil okay so you know there was water coming up from the ground uh you’re going to see um mounds
of turbulence on the water we’re going to we’re going to pretend that this is a magnitude one
spring it’s gushing right and uh so you can see this water coming up and there’s this there are
mounds of turbulence being generated as the water comes up okay the overall mound of water that’s
erupting from the earth seems to be permanent let’s see it just it won’t go away it just keeps
gushing and gushing all right so this could be regarded as the higher self okay but um upon that
mound there are sub mounds little tiny mounds of turbulence that are also erupting okay and they
sort of come and go they they appear and disappear they appear and they disappear okay so you notice
the overall mound that’s gushing of gushing water seems to be going on and on it seems to maintain
its shape forever okay and then of course every little sub mounds are just kind of coming and
going naturally you and i are sub mounds okay we are mounds of turbulence that are momentarily
interrupting and we’re only here for a short time we play out our little drama of our of appearances
and then we dissolve back into the larger amount of turbulence which is the higher self okay the
you could say that the divine is the water itself the larger amount of the spring boil that that
mound of turbulence is the higher self and then the sub mounds which come and go come and go those
are the uh spirits and the egos and the personas of temporary mortal beings okay and as you look
down upon the spring boil you can see the water itself could be regarded as divinity itself
god himself let’s say the higher self would be the spring boil itself which is constantly erupting
and of course the many little sub bumps the sub mounds of turbulence uh that come and go come and
go on the within the spring boil those are temporary manifestations of mortal beings like
you and me okay this would mean that uh it’s very difficult for an ego or a persona to contact the
higher self or so it seems because uh the ego can barely even see the higher self it’s it’s almost
like um a a finger trying to call forth the body that makes any sense so my finger is not going to
be very good at uh calling up the entire body okay however my body can easily present a finger
that makes any sense okay so the the uh you are just a finger of a much larger organism okay which
is the higher self and so the finger doesn’t really have that much power to call forth the
entire uh nature of the of the self i’m hoping that makes sense okay um however the so the the
ruach and the nefesh okay the ruach could be the ruach could be regarded as ego it can be
um it’s more like a persona and uh when it joins itself to the nefesh then it it’s basically
joining itself to the larger body okay so it’s joining itself to nature and it’s kind of like
when you do that it’s kind of like the finger connecting to the body of course but the finger
doesn’t need to connect to the body it’s already connected so what the finger does is it acknowledges
the fact that it’s already connected it recognizes that it’s already connected okay so i you can do
things like you can say i don’t need to invoke my higher self or evoke my higher self i am my
higher self okay but remember the finger cannot be filled crammed full of body i can’t i can’t
fit the whole body into a finger okay so if i were a finger cannot invoke the whole body
so to speak um but it can acknowledge its connection to the to the entire body
okay this is what invocation truly actually is okay if you if you if you tend to believe that
you can invoke the higher self okay into you that will tend to lead to ego inflation okay with uh
in other words the finger gets you try to cram the whole body into the finger and the finger
gets really big okay or the finger thinks it’s really big but of course it’s not possible to
cram the whole body into a finger okay the finger thinks it’s really big thinks it’s awesome because
it’s trying to identify with the entire body which it which is silly okay it doesn’t have to do that
it simply has to acknowledge that it’s connected to the body already and it has access to all the
intelligence that the body has there’s nothing hidden from it really except through misunderstanding
and as you can see this can bring new vision to what the middle pillar actually is not only does
it extend through extend through your body but it also extends through abstract diagrams like
this from divinity to higher self to ego okay so something about the levels of our expanding
awareness that can be linked or lined up with some kind of a schematic of a line or like a
pathway or a roadway or or a ladder of light to the angels ascending and descending all right
back to the vajra symbol i i bring this here because we are we do have some uh
enlightenment practices in systems of practice that have not been debased over time most of them
have been debased here and there but we are fortunate to have some uh enlightenment practices
that have been maintained throughout the ages in a pristine form.
And that is Kashmir Shaivism, one that I know of, and Tibetan Tantra.
And even so, these systems of practice have become so ingrained in the cultures that they were sustained in
that it makes it difficult for Westerners to work with.
Not impossible, but difficult.
and but if you have somebody who has the insight to uh work with western symbolism the western
symbolism the western the western systems of enlightenment can be restored um most of them
have become debased into sort of tabloid versions of themselves as we well know if you just look at
the um the greater and lesser keys of solomon these are debased forms of magic obviously um
So we come back to the symbol of the Vajra. I just want to point out that we have, as you remember on the Vajra symbol, you have the lotus. You see where it says the eight-petaled lotus? Upon the lotus at the top there, there sits a Buddha, okay? And that prong that goes up through the center, through the center of the Vajra, okay? That goes up right through the center of his body, okay?
and then we have these prongs out to the side okay these prongs that come out to the side
that are also part of that energy that’s that’s erupting from below let’s say okay can also be
seen as come showering down from above like that and um uh these are very interesting symbols here
because we have the makara head so you see the makara head right uh these are frightening images
this is the um any spirit that you that you the the little buddha that’s sitting there that any
spirit that he wants to see outside of his magic circle let’s say um is subject to being eaten by
this makara creature okay was originally like a water monster okay uh and this of course in
previous videos in a previous video i revealed this creature to be karanzan or apophis it’s that
creature that devours all of the unworthy aspects of yourself uh this is a very important symbol too
because what’s happening here is that as things arise let’s say let’s say what if you’re sitting
there meditating okay you you pay attention to sensations as they come and go you pay attention
to thoughts as they come and go okay there are various sounds in the room that room sounds in
the room that arise and then disappear okay so everything is like a spring okay there’s water
gushing up and it and there’s a momentary just pattern on the surface that appears a certain
way and then it dissolves and disappears then there’s another mound of turbulence that erupts
and you can see it and then it plays itself out and disappears okay so this is this is the way
that our awareness is phenomenologically speaking uh and so um if you’re sitting on your lotus
flower or standing in your magic circle looking at the world out there you’re watching as all of
these forms arise play themselves out and then dissipate die okay and the traumatic aspects
are represented by the makara head which is the water beast that’s eating things scary aspects
of that okay um and naturally the the scary aspects of all these manifestations are what
you’re making peace with when you’re doing enlightenment practices. Okay. There’s also
a Makara beast, which is not shown here. There’s also a Makara beast down underneath that center
prong. Okay. And then in the neophyte temple, he’s represented by Apophis, which is basically down
in the center of the temple, underneath the floor, waiting to devour the unworthy aspects of
yourself. Okay. What’s, what this means now is that things are arising, playing themselves out
and dying they arise they play themselves out and they die they arise they play themselves out and
they disappear okay that’s the nature of our existence in this surface world of reality okay
as we observe that happening that in itself is the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian
angel those phenomena are arising from the angel okay from the divine transmitted through the angel
and now manifesting in the material world and they the scary thing is that they arise and then they
die okay which shouldn’t be scary but of course we but naturally we we have evolved to become
afraid of disappearing and dying like that way okay uh what that means is that this is
the karmic processes that we are going through as we observe the world these karmic processes
are the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel they are that conversation
the problem really is not a matter of obtaining the knowledge and conversation
the main challenge before us is to recognize it as such okay and that evolves that that involves
a lot of discrimination. You know, you have to discriminate between what is sort of a holistic
eruption from the psyche or a partial eruption from the psyche, okay? So a lot of times we have
the turbulence is just working itself out, okay? But we can also have the level of the, let’s say
you’re looking at the spring, okay? The spring itself is an intelligent entity and it can
actually communicate with you and some of the images that appear during meditation are actually
communications from that deeper level it’s like basically like you are the finger and you’re
waiting for a communication from the body kind of silly really because everything you’re getting
is coming from the body pretty much right so all of your sustenance is pretty much already coming
from the body but of course any there are many little itchy sensations you could get in the
finger that aren’t necessarily representations of the deeper self, which is the body. But there
are many subtle sensations that are communication from the deeper body. So that kind of
discrimination, you have to develop that kind of discrimination. I know that’s an analogy. I know
it’s difficult, but I hope that you can at least start to glimpse what I’m talking about here.
so if we still keep the vajra symbol in mind we have that center prong going right up through the
magician here through his middle pillar okay and then one of the side prongs is manifesting as one
of those spirits and both of those are the funny thing is um the spirit might look at the magician
and the spirit might think oh i conjured you and now you are going to i’m going to make peace with
you right uh and or it could be the other way around because the ego and any spirit you conjure
pretty much the same the uh many people would say that any spirit that you conjure is a psychological
complex fine we can say that uh it’s much deeper than that but we can call it we can say okay it
becomes a complex and so what i’m really doing is summoning up a psychological complex um but we
have to remember that according to Jung, Carl Jung, the ego itself is a complex. So both of
these entities here are simply being generated up from the deeper level of the nefesh. And as they
play themselves out, they are communicating. So even as you watch a person that you live with
mature, get older, start to wither and die, that whole process is a communication from the divine
itself. That whole unfolding process has a lot of messages embedded within it.
Okay. And so the real discipline is not necessarily a matter of obtaining knowledge
and conversation, but of recognizing it and interpreting it. It can take a lifetime to
to develop the skill, but it’s not as hard as it seems. It’s basically literary skills that you
learned in high school from literature class, learning how to read foreshadowing, learning how
to read personification, learning how to understand symbolism, imagery, okay? These kinds of things
that we thought were only for literature, they actually represent how the psyche works. And as
the universe unfolds and it presents its imagery and symbols to you it’s communicating with you
it really is okay there is a modern uh modernity would try to tell you otherwise that there’s no
meaning there but there is okay so the magical world um has always been there it’s never gone
away modernity modernity did not chase it away all right and so when you have images like this
um that can be so mystifying if you become aware of how the the divine creates the animal soul
which then evolves the the human soul and how these images first descend into the animal soul
and then erupt into consciousness from down below let’s say then you can see how the images rise
and you can almost begin to see what they’re talking about okay so i’m hoping that possibly
just this image alone, it suddenly becomes much more meaningful because of the schematic that I
just presented to you. All right. So the knowledge of conversation is not something that needs to be
obtained. It’s something that needs to be recognized. Okay. The Ruach does not need to
be joined to the Nefesh. The Ruach simply needs to acknowledge that it has never been separate
from the nefesh to begin with and then that connection can facilitate the arising of images
from the higher self kind of strange to say that isn’t that that they arise from something higher
but now that i’ve given you this schematic you can see how that might work all right so i’m
hoping this clarified some things for some of you i know it’s might have might be really even
more mystifying. I’m hoping it helps. It’d be interesting to see what your comments are and I
might be able to offer clarification if you guys ask some really good questions. All right, until
next time.
Source: Lyam Christopher